Monthly Archives: March 2017

While many of today’s newspaper articles and reports will become the archives of the future, documenting the UK’s controversial and divisive exit from the European Union, for the sake of balance, we thought we would revisit our holdings for 1973, the … Continue reading →

Alternative Shakespeare While in the past we have done numerous posts and exhibitions showcasing some of the amazing Shakespeare-related materials we have in the archive, we could not resist posting something for Shakespeare Week So, we set ourselves the challenge … Continue reading →

De Montfort University Rugby Varsity This evening the De Montfort University Rugby teams take on the University of Leicester’s in the last events of the annual Varsity games! Faces shall be sufficiently planted into the mud at the famous Tiger’s Stadium! … Continue reading →

In anticipation of DMU’s latest #Loveinternational event scheduled for tomorrow, we thought we would show our support by highlighting how DMU and its predecessors has always had an international outlook that actively promotes tolerance and compassion. On this day in … Continue reading →

Today is our volunteer, Miten’s, last day in the DMU archive. Soon to start as a Trainee Digital Archivist at the Bodleian Library, Oxford we wish him lots of luck and success. Your work and commitment to the Andrew Davies Archive has … Continue reading →

Today is International Women’s Day and as a way of showing our support for the campaign to make a more inclusive gender equal world we wanted to showcase one of our collections that we felt reflects this year’s theme #Beboldforchange: the … Continue reading →

To celebrate DMU’s 147th birthday this week we thought we would dig out some material that would shed some light on how the institution first came into being. On 1st March 1870, DMU, then known as Leicester School of Art, was … Continue reading →